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Folk Dancing: Illustrating the Educational, Civic, and Moral Value of Folk Dancing

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Luther H. Gulick
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26 pages

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This illustrated booklet discusses the moral value of folk dancing. Part I covers folk and national dances. Part II covers the use of folk dancing in a public school system, as shown by its use by the girls’ branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Recreation Bibliography

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No author
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37 pages

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This booklet contains a list of books, reports, and magazine articles that deal with the topic of recreation. It is arranged by subject, with annotations on the more formal publications, many of which deal with other phases of recreation than the subject under which they are listed. Subjects include play and games, storytelling, folk dancing, sports, holidays, school gardens, boys’ and girls’ clubs, public parks, and walking clubs, among other topics.

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Some Correspondence of Interest to American Women

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No author
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8 pages

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This booklet includes correspondence from Margaret Woodrow Wilson, a daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and a champion of the social-center cause. She appeals to the State Federations composing the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to take up this timely and important task. The correspondence is followed by a typed list of essential provisions of an adequate social-center law.

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A Survey of School Social Centers

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Clarence A. Perry
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Publication Date
20 pages

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This booklet reports on the results of a survey on school social centers sent to 774 school superintendents. It includes charts on cities that reported having schoolhouse social or recreation centers at which there were some paid workers and that reported schools with libraries. The booklet also discusses civic aspects of recent social-center development.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

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A Comparative Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-Eight States

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No author
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33 pages

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This booklet is aimed at legislators, school workers, and others interested in public education and provides facts concerning school conditions in all the states. Topics include investment in the school building, expenditure per school-age child, the length of the school year and attendance, workers and wages, textbook legislation, medical inspection legislation, and tests of efficiency, among other topics.

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How the Social Center Promotes Reform Movements

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Clarence A. Perry
Ebook
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7 pages

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This booklet discusses how social centers promote reform movements. It notes that social centers provide patriotic education of immigrants through public ceremonies held for their naturalization, civic and health education, the promotion of baby welfare, the elevation of political discussions, and the dignification of voting through the maintenance of balloting booths. The booklet concludes with a list of foundation pamphlets on the topic of the social center.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

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American Vacation Schools of 1912

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Clarence A. Perry
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8 pages

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This booklet comments on the increase in the number of vacation schools—that is, schools that reopen in June after the conclusion of the regular school year. It discusses how the schools are affecting elementary education and provides a list of cities offering vacation classes as well statistics regarding the number of buildings used, the number of sessions held, and the frequency of classes, among other topics.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

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Sources of Information on Play and Recreation

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Marguerita P. Williams
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Publication Date
94 pages

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This booklet contains a bibliography on recreation in response to requests the foundation received for up-to-date information on the best texts on the subject. It lists important and readily available books, pamphlets, reports, and articles dealing with various subtopics, including, for example: games and entertainment; athletics; swimming pools and public baths; dancing and rhythmic games; and dramatics, pageants, and festivals.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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New York School Centers and Their Community Policy

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Clarence A. Perry
Marguerita P. Williams
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Publication Date
78 pages

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This booklet discusses the use of schools as community centers and the centers’ policies. Topics include the New York school center system of the time, the historical antecedents of community policy, and community use and its regulation. An appendix provides a directory of official and unofficial community centers.

CLARENCE A. PERRY worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Directories of Social Agencies

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Bertha F. Hulseman
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11 pages

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This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1931.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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